Susan Humphreys

Susan Humphreys, PhD, RN, is a Nurse Manager at Johns Hopkins Hospital.12 She is known for her work in the kidney transplant program and for being a living kidney donor herself.1 In 2014, at the age of 64, Humphreys donated her kidney to a woman in her 20s who had been on dialysis.1

Humphreys has a diverse background in healthcare:

1. She completed her doctoral dissertation before becoming a kidney donor.1
2. She previously worked in the kidney program at Johns Hopkins Hospital.1
3. As a Nurse Manager, she is involved in the living donor screening process.1

Humphreys is passionate about organ donation and describes her experience as giving her "joy and that very deep feeling of being interconnected with people in the world".1 She is based in Catonsville, Maryland.23